Is this something you will enjoy doing or profit from in some sort of way? Many people make a website to help them advertise their businesses. Others may want to make a website just for fun. As for myself, I am in the website development business for both. I like making money online as well as I like building websites for a hobby. I have the time, patience and drive to make websites. Making websites is a time consuming and peaceful activity that I enjoy doing in my spare time.

Monday, December 19, 2011

Current Web Design Trends 2011-2012

Web design is not restricted to any barrier. As web designers, we
used to fickle a lot and love to experiments with things to come up with
a creative and new concept that can charm and captivate the visitors.
Everyday, creative web designers exploring new possibilities and apply
variations with existing or new trends to make their work more
remarkable. The year 2010 proved as an incredibly verdant for web
designer community. We are now well into year 2011 and it’s time to pack
away the old design trends of 2010.
With hungry eye, let’s move
in the future and see a new face of tomorrow. Over past few months, we
have analyzed numerous web designs over web and come across lot of
changes in the web design industry. We have noticed a definite
shift according to which web designers these days are more focused
on function rather than the beauty with no substance in the year 2011.
However, predicting the evolution of web design industry is very tough.
In
this post, we are going to discuss all those changes, upcoming trends,
new design elements and new design approaches we identified, discovered
and observed over the last months. Here are Current Web design Trends
for 20011-2012. These new trends are more focused towards visual
approaches and new design elements. We hope that these new web design
trends and techniques taken into account by you for your next project.

1. CSS3 + HTML5

One
of the most unexpected trends we’ve observed over the last months was
the more use of CSS3 and HTML5 on the horizon of web designs. Most of
web designers are jumping from Flash to HTML5. Earlier, designers are
misusing Flash when it comes to web design but now it’s not going to
work anymore. Please notice that Adobe Flash and HTML5 are two different
things. HTML5 introduced to share the burden placed on Flash but HTML5
cannot substitute Flash when it comes to create the extraordinary design
elements.
Below are some of the websites powered by HTML5 and CSS3. Take a look:

Nike Better World website

Spaghetti* Framework

Eyestylesllc

NakshArt

2. Go For Simple Color Schemes

Simplicity
is the key. Forget about color and shades like black, white and grey
but try something simple and truly remarkable. Experiment with primary
colors like green, yellow or red intelligently to create a web design
but limit palette to two or three colors. Web designers can play with
shades of each color to create really inspiring color combination to
communicate a message. Here are some of the best examples of great web
design inspired with color schemes formed by using different shades of
primary colors like green and red.

Toriseye

Collisionlabs

3. Mobile Device Compatibility

These
days, mobile web browsing has gained popularity among people as the
next major Internet platform. This brings necessity of mobile optimized
websites highly compatible with all mobile devices. As per the latest
trend of mobile-optimized interfaces, web developers are more focused to
create websites which are highly responsive to multiple viewports. Here
are few examples:

New York Times

Twitter

Digg

4. Parallax scrolling

At
present, web designers are more focused to create a sense of depth in
website design and this is the most effective web design trend for 2011.
This emerging trend brings parallax scrolling into the picture.
Parallax scrolling is a special technique first used in side scrolling
video games but now in website. In the parallax effect, designers are
using multiple layers to create an illusion of a 3 dimensional space
where background images move slower than foreground image to add nice
three dimensional depth illusions to the design. It can be done with the
help of simple CSS tricks or Spritely jQuery plugins.

Rowtothepole

Rastapé

5. Touchscreen-oriented website designs

In
modern age, technology has been becoming more tactile which resulted in
a huge shift from usability to tangible. These days, people are using
touchscreens instead of navigating mouse. In modern web design era,
people are looking for websites that fitting nicely into the
touchscreens rather than mouse optimized one. As per this trend,
horizontal scrolling websites are considered more appropriate for
touchscreens.